Brian Tomlin | October 31, 2014
October 1. The Australian Post, a weekly newspaper, published its first issue. It would go on to become the most popular publication in Australia as a weekly picture magzine, with its circulation peaking in the 1960s. It published until 2002. October 5. A cyclone kills 70,000 in Calcutta. In 1866 a report on the cyclone […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 30, 2014
A Civil War grave marker found in the St. Paul’s (Artz) Church Cemetery, Sacramento, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, for Wandal Miller, who served in the 107th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company G, presented somewhat of a challenge to research due to his common surname. Wandal, who was more commonly found as Wendall Miller (or as he was located […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 29, 2014
On 30 October 1880, the Harrisburg Patriot ran the following story: The funeral of Mr. George Armstrong, late of Wiconisco, on Sunday morning was a very large one. Deceased served faithfully in the Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry during the late war, and was interred with military honors. He died rather suddenly of an abscess on the […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 28, 2014
The 49th Pennsylvania Infantry Monument at Gettysburg is located south of the town of Gettysburg on Howe Road. It was dedicated as part of the group of monuments paid for by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1889. The view of the monument (above) is from a Philadelphia Inquirer article of 11 September 1889 on the festivities […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 27, 2014
Philip Harman, who enrolled in the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry at Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on 16 September 1861, and was mustered into service at Harrisburg, 7 October 1861, as a Private in Company B, was a 21 year old farmer whose residence was Dauphin County. His physical description included a height of 6 feet 1 […]
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